GCN Circular 13784
Subject
GRB 120918A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2012-09-19T21:43:17Z (12 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), B. N. Barlow (PSU), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),
J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), E. E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC), G. Sato (ISAS), M. Stamatikos (OSU),
J. Tueller (GSFC), T. N. Ukwatta (MSU)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-239 to T+963 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 120918A (trigger #534015)
(Barlow, et al., GCN Circ. 13799). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 181.042, -32.762 deg, which is
RA(J2000) = 12h 04m 10.1s
Dec(J2000) = -32d 45' 43.5"
with an uncertainty of 1.1 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 15%.
The mask-weighted light curve shows several overlapping peaks starting
at ~T-5 sec, the main peak at ~T+1 sec, and ending at ~T+40 sec.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 25.1 +- 2.5 sec (estimated error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-2.86 to T+23.90 sec is best fit by a power law
with an exponential cutoff. This fit gives a photon index 1.00 +- 0.39,
and Epeak of 85.5 +- 36.3 keV (chi squared 55.6 for 56 d.o.f.). For this
model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 3.7 +- 0.6 x 10^-6 erg/cm2
and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T-0.28 sec in the 15-150 keV band is
4.5 +- 0.5 ph/cm2/sec. A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index
of 1.60 +- 0.09 (chi squared 63.5 for 57 d.o.f.). All the quoted errors
are at the 90% confidence level.
The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_s/534015/BA/